Over at Feministing, a reader noticed these panties in the “juniors” section at the Wal-Mart on Kildare Farms Road in Cary, NC.

While we can’t disagree with the strict literal interpretation of the message, perhaps Walmart should consider printing it on a wallet, rather than on panties meant for teenage girls. The whole prostitution angle is clouding the message of fiscal responsibility. Hey, it’s just a suggestion.

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Wow. Gross. That’s at least as gross as the Aberzombie kiddie thong underpants, maybe even more gross. Nothing says “family values” like the implication that your preteen should peddle her ass for cash rather than using a credit card.

oh, this drivel again. no one is suggest state censorship. We are suggesting that wal-mart be shamed for promoting underage sex and prostitution. It’s all the more discusting because of their sanctimonious stance on many other issues.

I can see the marketing meeting now. “Lindsey and Britney aren’t wearing panties, how on earth are we going to get teens to keep buying them?” A brief silence falls on the room, and the creepy guy in the back says. “Aha! I have it, slut panties!”

Be on the look out for mesh panties that overlay a fake tramp stamp on the small of the back. “For girls under 18 who know what they are going to do in life.”

Who comes up with this stuff? Who approves this product to go to production and actually be distributed. It boggles the mind. Some company actually chose to make these. And Wal-Mart chooses to distribute them.

This is a perfect addendum to the Wal-Mart Business Plan:

1. Fuck your community. We’re coming, with either 1 store or 2, or however many it takes to get around the pitiful little “laws” you pass in a futile attempt to keep us out.
2. Fuck your local businesses. We will under-sell them, and ruin them, leaving no competition in town.
3. Fuck your ecology. We will drain protected wetlands to make room for our stores. See also #1.
4. Fuck your local workforce. We’ll underpay them, offer shitty “benefits,” and force them to work unpaid overtime by locking them into the stores overnight. They’ll be forced to suck it up and take it in the ass because there won’t be any other jobs in the area. See also #2 and #1.
5. Fuck your daughters and your values. We’ll corrupt your daughters and make them money-grubbing whores who will never make anything of themselves and will be forced to work for us for the rest of their miserable small-town lives.

I don’t think they have just ‘adult’ undies though. It’s like juniors and granny panties. I’m fairly sure these aren’t in the kids’ undies section. Still amusing that they’ll carry these but not certain music selections.

Uh-actually I think they’re kinda cute. If I bought clothes at Walmart, I might buy these panties. I think the message is kinda anti-shopaholic which I like.

Also, Raanne is right, juniors isn’t kids. I’m an adult and I wear juniors. Juniors sizes are more or less the same as woman’s (maybe slightly smaller). I have family members still in college and they all wear junior size clothing.

The irony is by the posting here, I bet these panties are gonna be top sellers and end up on ebay fetching more for their notoriety. Now I’m definitely getting a pair.

Never did I think I would find Frederick’s of Hollywood to be a bastion of decent morality in this world…oh, and they should totally package this with a fake tramp stamp kit so our little girls can use them together.

After one buys it, who reads it? Well besides the other girls in the locker room before gym… oh highschool… our gym teachers were insensitive morons… They would discuss locker room problems in front of everyone in class, be it spitting in the boys locker room to brassiere snapping in the girls, why didn’t they say it in the locker rooms instead in class, who knows

The funny thing is that the panties are right on the money – you don’t have to worry about all the fees and changing rates associate with credit cards if you live by this philosophy I guess.

Or maybe this is a new way Walmart is trying to help young women avoid credit card debt… No? Well, maybe since I’ve been working with unfaircreditacardfees.com I’ve got it on the brain, but this is the Consumerists – and they were live-blogging the hearings in Washington on credit card practices the other days.

I guess there are ways to avoid interchange fees and there are ways to avoid interchange fees… I find it somewhat sexist though myself – where’s the male version?
Just sayin.

@omerhi: They were right on the aisle end of a rack. *shrug*. I was only at walmart under threat of torture (like that store isn’t torture enough) from a grandmother who wanted help xmas shopping for my 8 younger cousins. She thought they were cute. (The woman’s certifiably out of her mind.)

True confessions: I spent my lunch hour at Wal-Mart getting some stocking stuffers for our teen and adult kids. And a DVD of “It’s a Wonderful Life” to replace the old VHS version. The shopping experience itself wasn’t bad, but the cashiers were slow, unfriendly, and prone to making mistakes that the supervisor had to override with her key. I know: I shouldn’t expect more, based on the low pay they get from Wally.

I’ve always thought more highly of my person than I thought of my credit cards. That includes my vagina. Maybe the message on the panties have to do with valuing your self-worth over consumerism and materialism. Naaahhhhhh…. I’m just kidding. I still do have a high opinion of my vagina, though.

First off, this was linked from a FEMINIST site, so of COURSE the OP was gonna have a problem with ANYTHING that even HINTS at the phallacracy of American society.

Secondly, apparently there is a punchline on the reverse which reads (as was pointed out a few posts back) …When you have SANTA! This gives a whole new meaning to the front. But like so many other facets of the media these days, its much more fun to leave shit out that tells the whole story and skew it to fit your agenda.

Third, LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP. They’re fucking panties fer OPTIMUS PRIME’s sake! And Christmas panties, at that, so they will only be worn about 3 times and then forgotten.

Next, someone will be bitching because they reference Santa Claus, a wholly secular/Christian entity. Talk about your Politically Incorrect. Maybe they should say (front) “Who needs credit cards..” (back)”..when you get gifts during the many diverse cultural celebrations held in the month of December.”

@KingCool: Uhh… I don’t remember reading about Santa in the bible… Or hearing anything other then “avoid the temptation of the false idol that detracts from the true meaning of Christmas, Christs Birth” (which I then mumble that Christ was not born in december)

@cde:
My point was that Jews and Kwanzaacans etc. do NOT identify Santa Claus (i.e. Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Sinter Klaus, Father Christmas, Pere Noel) as an icon of the Holiday season the same as Christians and secular ppl. But maybe it’s different where you live. Maybe little Jewish kids go and sit on Santa’s lap at the mall and ask for eight things…

Feministing.com brings news of something new for sale at Wal-Mart: sexism in the shape of girls’ underwear. These dainty underthings are for sale at Wal-Mart, encouraging girls to use their bodies, not their brains! Now, let’s try to get this straight.

I don’t see what the big deal is. When I saw them I immediately thought that it was a joke saying that Santa (mom and dad) would bring them everything they needed instead of running up a credit card. I had to read some of the comments to figure how why everyone was up in arms.Maybe my mind isn’t in the gutter though.

i understand walmart in general is evil, but the walmart near lsu in baton rouge is one of the best shopping experiences. everyone is obnoxiously nice and they overstock on typical college foods. it is sad, but they are better than the others near campus.

I know that I would rather have my daughter wear the hidden panties rather than have her say the 4 letter words that come out of some of these “righteous” peoples’ mouth. That’s where the real trash is. I got her a robe last year from Walmart that says “Dear Santa, I want everything” From the way some of you think, I guess she wants every thing sexual.